Posts by Wake Me Up Before You Jo-Ho

And seizures. If I even see footage of someone lapsing into a seizure, I shut down and go into shock. I'd say this is more PTSD after witnessing a horrific seizure of a loved one back in 2012. Just watching a seizure occur even in a movie makes my blood suddenly run cold, flooding my insides with the same feelings of terror, fear and horror I experienced five years ago.

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Do you (or did you) have much of a social life as a Jehovahs Witness.

by UnshackleTheChains in

i ask this question out of interest, because as a jehovahs witness for some 26 years, i have always felt that there is an 'all work, no play' culture within the organisation.

the organisation doesn't promote social gatherings.

i could count on one hand each year how many get togethers we have had.

Wake Me Up Before You Jo-Ho

Social life = PATHETIC as a Witness. Even when I was invited to hang out with a congregational friend, my father would say, "didn't they just see you at the meeting?" Then he would quote Proverbs 25:17 to me which said something about rarely setting foot in your neighbors house so that they "don't come to hate you." So after enough pleading and begging, I'd begrudgingly be allowed to go, albeit with a heavy heart and the overwhelming feeling that these friends didn't really want to see me since they were on the cusp of hating me.

Gatherings, on the other hand, were just as painful. My parents would make me ring up the host to inquire how many people will be attending, will alcohol be served, who will be chaperoning the event, and what kind of music will be playing. On top of that, my curfew was 22:00 if the gathering was a local one, and 00:00 when it was a gathering over an hour away. I'd be the only adult leaving just as everyone started to have fun EVERY time.

Humiliating, frustration and isolating.

But hey... if the Society says that's how it should be done......

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Which Things Did Your Overzealous Parents Ban?

by pale.emperor in

we all know the gb like to impose rules upon the rules... but did anyone else out there have parents that implemented rules upon those rules?

mine did.

my mum tended to copy whatever the elders wives were doing and took it to the extreme.

Wake Me Up Before You Jo-Ho

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (I had to secretly stay up to watch the reruns at 02:00 with the volume below a whisper)

Goosebumps books (I once set my blanket on fire while secretly reading with the blanket draped over my lamp)

The Internet

Shaving my legs (my, wasn't I the most popular eighth grader as a result)

As for any DVD or VHS that had an M-rating, they were subsequently cracked or recorded over... this was the law in my home 'til I finally moved out at 20.

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Making real friends

by KindEyes in

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hiya, firstly i’m new to this website, so sorry if this topic has been covered before.

i have been out of “the truth” for almost one year.

i live with my non-witness mother, have an amazing boyfriend, work and am in college.

Wake Me Up Before You Jo-Ho

Hi KindEyes :). I've been awake for a good year, also. Finding friends on the outside feels so strange, hey. I feel like "worldly" people will find it strange that a perfectly approachable, relaxed 27 year old woman would introduce herself to them with ZERO social network. It's like I'm the 49 year old single broad who shows up at a hip-and-happening nightclub in a desperate bid to find love. Compared to all the vibrant young ones who are in their prime and are already paired off, I feel like I've reached my shelf-life and have missed my opportunity :(.

Since you have a boyfriend, perhaps he has friends of his own who are also in relationships? I'd be asking him to tee up some double dates! With luck, maybe you'll get on with the girlfriends of his buddies. Just an idea... :).

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Satan in Heaven

by pleaseresearch in

this has always baffled me.

that is why was satan and his demons allowed to be in heaven for so long after they split from god?.

if we did that then we are out of the congregation, members are shunned and also kicked out of families homes.

Wake Me Up Before You Jo-Ho

Even more baffling is, despite the heavens reigning over the entire universe and the myriad of distant planets out there, Jesus decided to banish Satan to OUR planet. Shows how geocentric the first century view of the cosmos was...

Why would a loving, wise God keep feeding into Satan's desire to harm and destroy His creation instead of simply casting him and the demons to some obscure, gaseous ball of hydrogen 45 billion light years away?

Ancient answer: "What's a light year?"

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Reversing magnetic fields

by careful in

for the first time scientists have successfully reversed a naturally occurring magnetic field.

it could have multiple implications:.

https://www.natureindex.com/article/10.1063/1.4974994.

Wake Me Up Before You Jo-Ho

@The Fall Guy Are you Positive about that?